Yonhap News Agency:

The United States will help South Korea prepare against threats posed by intermediate range missiles from its neighbors, but what defense capabilities will be developed and deployed in South Korea will be entirely up to Seoul, a U.S. diplomat in charge of arms reduction said on Friday.

“The South Korean government will have to decide for itself what kinds of capabilities it needs to have in order to discharge its responsibilities under our mutual defense agreement. That is something that only the Korean government can decide,” Marshall Billingslea, special presidential envoy for arms control, said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency.

The special envoy is set to visit Seoul for two days from Sunday (Seoul time)…

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